This is a bullaun stone, a type of ancient carved rock found across Ireland, typically associated with early Christian or pre-Christian ritual use. The depression in this particular stone measures between 0.33 and 0.35 metres in diameter and sits 0.17 metres deep, making it a notably substantial example. The stone itself is 0.86 metres long and 0.65 metres wide.

The stone only came to wider attention when the graveyard was extended, at which point it was uncovered and documented. Its existence was first recorded in the 1986 Corca Dhuibhne archaeological survey, compiled by J. Cuppage and published by Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne in Ballyferriter, as part of a systematic effort to catalogue the archaeological landscape of the Dingle Peninsula. A later survey in 2011, carried out by Ann Frykler and Robert Hanbidge of Headland Archaeology Ltd., found the stone sitting to the north of the historic graveyard section, in what was then an overgrown area beyond its established boundary. That location, just outside the formal limits of consecrated ground, is itself of some interest; bullaun stones are frequently found at the margins of early ecclesiastical sites, sometimes associated with healing rites or with the veneration of particular saints, though no specific tradition has been recorded for this stone.